Foreword / Harold Bolitho -- Introduction / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Pt. I. Archaeology and Anthropology. Ch. 1. Folsom and Talgai: Cowboy Archaeology in Two Continents / Rhys Jones. Ch. 2. The Frontier and Anthropology: Reflections on the Australian and American Experience / John Mulvaney. Ch. 3. Mutant Message Down Under: A New Age for an Old People / L. R. Hiatt -- Pt. II. Literature and Fine Arts. Ch. 4. The Past: Burden or Asset? / Leonie Kramer. Ch. 5. The Repeated Rediscovery of America / Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Ch. 6. "Travelling, Despairing, Singing": Two Poetries / Peter Steele. Ch. 7. The Curve of the Pacific Gets in the Way / Kevin Hart. Ch. 8. Double Vision: Antipodean or Not? / Jan Senbergs --Pt. III. History. Ch. 9. Not As the Song of Other Lands / Geoffrey Blainey. Ch. 10. Australian Women in America, from Miles Franklin to Jill Ker Conway / Jill Roe. Ch. 11. Driving to Austerica: The Americanization of the Postwar Australian City / Graeme Davison
Ch. 12. The Creation of Australian Space / Alan Frost -- Pt. IV. Government. Ch. 13. Australian Democracy and the American Century / James Walter. Ch. 14. Civilizing Capitalism? Game Over, Insert Coins / Peter Beilharz. Ch. 15. The Australian-American Curriculum for the Past and the Next Twenty Years / E. Gough Whitlam
Summary
These papers, each by a notable Australian scholar, offer several approaches to the Australian experience, past, present, and future. The authors come from different disciplines, but what they have in common is their familiarity with the United States, and their experience in interpreting their homeland to an American audience. As they discuss poetry and politics, nationalism and feminism, Aboriginal society and urbanization, they also explore a common theme: the emergence of a distinctive Australian entity, and the contribution to it - positive, negative, direct and indirect - of the United States
